Serial terminal / USB

Hello,

I have set up a few Linux (and BSD servers) to be accessed through the
serial port from a terminal (or from a laptop running Minicom).

It works beautifully both ways.  But my current laptop (a nice light 12"
one) doesn't have a serial port and only has USB ports.

I haven't been able to find information on how or even if it is possible
to access a console to my servers through USB (I've got a USB/serial
connector and have made a couple of tries to no avail).

Is this at all possible?  If so, could somebody point me to the right
documentation to read?  Please feel free to set a follow-up to any other
news group you might think more appropriate to this subject.

Thank you and Greetings,
�ngel

-- 
Saludos,
Angel

Angel wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have set up a few Linux (and BSD servers) to be accessed through the
> serial port from a terminal (or from a laptop running Minicom).
> 
> It works beautifully both ways.  But my current laptop (a nice light
12"
> one) doesn't have a serial port and only has USB ports.
> 
> I haven't been able to find information on how or even if it is possible
> to access a console to my servers through USB (I've got a USB/serial
> connector and have made a couple of tries to no avail).
> 
> Is this at all possible?  If so, could somebody point me to the right
> documentation to read?  Please feel free to set a follow-up to any other
> news group you might think more appropriate to this subject.
> 
> Thank you and Greetings,
> Ángel
> 
Hi!
Yes, it is possible. If the kernel on your laptop recognizes the adapter,
then give "screen" a try: 
screen -L -t "serial-console" /dev/ttyS0 57600 cs8

On Wed, 21 Nov 2007 15:46:00 +0100, Angel wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have set up a few Linux (and BSD servers) to be accessed through the
> serial port from a terminal (or from a laptop running Minicom).
> 
> It works beautifully both ways.  But my current laptop (a nice light
12"
> one) doesn't have a serial port and only has USB ports.
> 
> I haven't been able to find information on how or even if it is possible
> to access a console to my servers through USB (I've got a USB/serial
> connector and have made a couple of tries to no avail).
> 
> Is this at all possible?  If so, could somebody point me to the right
> documentation to read?  Please feel free to set a follow-up to any other
> news group you might think more appropriate to this subject.
> 
> Thank you and Greetings,
> �ngel

Hello,

There are drivers for USB -> serial in the kernel. I'm running 2.6, and
they're located under Device Drivers -> USB support -> USB Serial
Converter support. I was able to get my USB -> serial cable working by
compiling the USB serial converter driver as a module and building in the
USB Generic Serial Driver. I then loaded the module with `modprobe
usbserial vendor=0xVENDORID product=0xPRODUCTID`. I got those numbers
by plugging the cable into my usb and running lsub, look for the numbers
in the format xxxx:xxxx (vendor:product).

Hope this helps,

tom speckert <tom_speckert@rogers.com> wrote:
> 
> There are drivers for USB -> serial in the kernel. I'm running 2.6, and
> they're located under Device Drivers -> USB support -> USB Serial
> Converter support. I was able to get my USB -> serial cable working by
> compiling the USB serial converter driver as a module and building in the
> USB Generic Serial Driver.
> 
> Hope this helps,

It does.  It works wonderfully in combination with screen (as somebody
else suggested me to try).

Thanks a lot.

-- 
Saludos,
Angel

Piotr Orlowski <piotr.orlowski@linbit.com> wrote:
> Angel wrote:

>> I haven't been able to find information on how or even if it is
possible
>> to access a console to my servers through USB (I've got a USB/serial
>> connector and have made a couple of tries to no avail).
 
> Yes, it is possible. If the kernel on your laptop recognizes the adapter,

I needed to load the usbserial module, as somebody else has stated on a
different post here.

> then give "screen" a try: 
> screen -L -t "serial-console" /dev/ttyS0 57600 cs8

It works wonderfully.  Very nice, indeed, much nicer than Minicom.
Screen, to me, is like Vim, every day I learn something new and amazing
about them.

Thanks a lot.

-- 
Saludos,
Angel